Your Questions Answered: Witkoff meets Putin, Chinese soldiers and Russia’s economy

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  BBC sounds music radio podcasts.

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  It's one thousand one hundred and forty three days since Russia began its full scale invasion of Ukraine.

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  And I'm here with Vitaly and Olga and we are recording on Friday afternoon.

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  And my dear colleagues, it's been a busy day so far.

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  And there's been a big meeting yet another big meeting in Brussels.

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  A lot of sums of money.

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  Military aid for Ukraine announced Vitaly top numbers.

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  Ukraine's allies meeting and they have pledged to give Ukraine twenty four billion dollars worth in new military support.

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  So that's what's happening in Europe.

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  Meanwhile, in St. Petersburg, within the past ten minutes,

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  we've been getting reports that Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Wittkopf, is meeting Vladimir Putin.

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  Their meeting has begun before that.

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  The Kremlin spokesman and Dmitry Peskov said

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  that they will be discussing plans for the two presidents to meet Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

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  Ukraine, obviously, on the agenda.

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  But Peskov says, do not expect a breakthrough.

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  So let's see what happens there.

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  Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister this morning.

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  He was speaking in Kazakhstan.

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  And yet again, he he delivered this line of any solutions in Ukraine.

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